John Ruskin Quotes
Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.
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I don't think people are ever going to a place where they're like, 'I'm over stories about character and love.'
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.
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I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.
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When I go a stretch without tweeting, I will occasionally get an email from my mom, checking in. I always find this amusing but also gratifying: Thanks to Twitter, I can keep in touch with my parents and let them in on what I'm doing in a way that even the regular phone calls of a doting daughter can't do.
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I went to high school, which was a good thing because I hadn't interacted with many people my age, and I didn't really have friends. I had a million acquaintances and no friends.
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Being a gal, people can be a bit patronizing. 'Oh, look at you using the computer.' They would never say that to a boy. And I don't let them do it to me.
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All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.
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Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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Napster has pointed the way for a new direction for music distribution, and we believe it will form the basis of important and exciting new business models for the future of the music industry.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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I did as much research as I could and I took ownership of this illness, because if you don't take care of your body, where are you going to live?
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I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time.
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There's something nice and intimate about having a book. You know that someone's actually gone on this journey. You know that someone has actually researched and reported all these things. You can see and hear their tone in what they chosen to include and what they haven't.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.
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The Melvins are grunge.
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You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.
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The first thing that you lose on a diet is brain mass.
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One thing is for sure: most of the people admitting candidates to universities for technical subjects are pretty dissatisfied with the level of math education.
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Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments.
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If I was coming into the business today, I wouldn't be in it. Knowing what I know, absolutely not.
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Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.
